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Cameras that give you usable footage

Design, installation and maintenance of CCTV, access control and alarm systems.

What it does

CCTV & Security Systems

Most CCTV systems fail at exactly the moment they are needed. The footage is there but the face is unusable, or the recorder overwrote it four days ago, or the camera watching the till has been pointing at the ceiling since a cleaner knocked it. Getting evidence out of a system afterwards depends entirely on decisions made before the first cable is pulled.

  • Site survey with camera positions chosen for identification, not just coverage
  • Lens and resolution selected per position — identify, recognise or observe
  • IP camera installation over PoE, with cabling to standard
  • NVR and DVR configuration, RAID and storage sizing to your retention period
  • Retention calculation — how many days you will actually keep, at what quality
  • Low-light and infrared performance verified at night, not assumed
  • Remote viewing on phone and computer, tuned for Tanzanian bandwidth
  • Motion, line-crossing and intrusion detection with alerts
  • ANPR and licence plate capture at gates and yards
  • Access control: card, PIN and biometric, with door and turnstile integration
  • Intruder alarms, panic buttons and integration to a control room
  • Surge protection, UPS backup and proper earthing on every run
  • Maintenance contracts — lens cleaning, alignment checks and health monitoring

Tanzania

Equipment, standards and the law here

  • Brands we install and support — Hikvision, Dahua, Uniview, Axis, Hanwha, Bosch and CP Plus, with ONVIF used where a site has mixed equipment.
  • Personal Data Protection Act — camera placement, signage, retention limits and access control over footage, so a system does not itself become a compliance problem.
  • Evidence quality — positions specified to identification standard where identification is the point, with test footage reviewed before sign-off.
  • Power and lightning — UPS backup and surge protection on cameras and recorders, which is what determines whether a system survives its second rainy season.
  • Bandwidth realism — sub-streams and schedules configured so remote viewing works on the connection you actually have.

How we work

Scoped first, built in phases

We look at the process

Not a sales meeting. We sit with the people who do the work now and find where the time and money actually go.

You get a written scope

What will be built, what it costs, how long it takes, and what is explicitly out of scope. In writing, before anything starts.

Built in phases

The part that hurts most is delivered first and put into real use, so value arrives before the whole project is finished.

Trained and supported

Your staff are trained on the real system with real data, and support continues after go-live.

Runs on your own server if you want it to. Internet in Tanzania is not guaranteed. Systems can be installed on a machine at your premises so the business keeps working during an outage, syncing when the connection returns.

Frequently asked

CCTV & Security Systems — questions we get

How many days of footage will we keep?

That is a calculation, not a guess — number of cameras, resolution, frame rate, compression and recording mode against disk capacity. We size storage to the retention you want and tell you what it costs before installing.

Can we view the cameras from our phones?

Yes. We configure sub-streams so mobile viewing works on ordinary Tanzanian internet rather than stalling, and set it up securely rather than by exposing the recorder to the internet.

Can you fix a system somebody else installed?

Yes. Common findings are cameras aimed for coverage instead of identification, retention far shorter than the client believes, and no surge protection. We report what we find before quoting work.

Do you do number plate recognition at gates?

Yes, with cameras and lighting specified for plate capture, which is a different setup from a general overview camera.

What about power cuts?

Cameras and the recorder go on UPS, sized for the outage length you need to cover. A system that stops recording during a blackout is not a security system.

Related systems

Often deployed alongside

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Talk to us

Tell us what your business actually needs

Describe the process that is costing you time or money. We will tell you honestly whether software is the right answer, and what it would take.

Phone+255 781 115 402
Emailinfo@pitech.co.tz
LocatedDar es Salaam
ServingTanzania
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